Below
are some reviews of various aromatherapy type books.Some
reviews are years old, and some of the books may no longer be published.
However, these reviews should be food for thought as they represent a
historical record of the bedrock on which aromatherapy still stands. Most
of the errors are still found in the majority of aromatherapy books, and
are republished on numerous medicines and healthcare advice web sites.

There
are very few Aromatherapy books that I have respect for. Most of the popular
aromatherapy books have some information that is useful. However, what
lets them down badly are the therapeutic properties they attribute to
essential oils.

Most
of the first writers on the subject such as Lawless, Tisserand, Price,
Rose, Worwood, etc., frequently noted the traditional or researched properties
of the herbal extract taken internally as a medicine. Then they
simply transferred those properties to the plants essential oil intended
mainly as external applications. That fundamental and massive blunder
continues with most of the modern books.

Why
did these authors make these fundamental blunders? The main reason
is that most had no training in the real essential oils trade; no formal
herbal training; no medical training; no sound training in essential oils
chemistry, etc. Due to that, most did not know where to look for accurate
information on essential oils. That research information was vast if you
knew where to find it, but it was not to be found in complementary medicine
resources.

It seems
most of the public believe, that if someone publishes a book, that they
must be knowledgeable on the subject. This is very far from the truth.
Publishers as a whole only care about making money, not on the accuracy
of the books they sell you.

Those
with this desperate need to live in a fantasy world can buy any of this
trades novels. In that respect people should stop and think why it is
that the biggest selling books in the world are novels. It is lovely to
be able to escape reality by being told that if you rub a bit of lemon
oil over your liver that it will cure your gallstones! Those people who
write well researched technical books do it for the love of what they
do, not for money and fame.

Many books are missing
from below. It just happens these are ones I already had basic reviews
on. Click
the blue text for the reviews.